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I found a way to alter the items you get when choosing a chapter. This could be used to cheat in a massive way obviously, or you could use it to regain what you should have at that point. You can choose what level you are, what weapons, mods, ingrediants and collectables you have. You can even give yourself the items from the upcoming DLC, like the shock pulse bomb (which blows up the heads of nearby zombies), but this maybe be too naughty and get you told off by higher ups.

Anyway, after opening and extracting Data0.pak, open the files Inventory.scr and Collectables.scr, these contain the item names of all the base items in the game. Copy and paste ones you want into a temporary file(this makes it easier incase you mess up). Open up default_player_setup.scr and locate the text sub Items_low, theres also medium, high and very high, dependign on the game chapter. Under there, you will find what items you will currently load with, paste the ones you want into that spot. Example:

no, that'll work fine, its just easier to keep track if you only put in the files you want to change. Copying the folder is good though, it keeps all the directories in the right order.

As for getting items into your current game, the best way is to alter the quest rewards. The best thing is to pick one of the repeatable ones. go to \Documents\DeadIsland\out\Data\Quests\ and open the act folder that is what your playing. Open either mani quests, or side quests. Side quests has more options, including the repeatable ones.

To change the reward info when accepting the quest change the brief infoe.g

brief_item="&Melee_leg_Zedsdemise_N&" brief_item_color="4">

then further down change the actual reward

item="Melee_leg_Zedsdemise" item_color="4"/>

the color is for the quaility 0 = white down to 4 = orange

the brief bit isnt that important, whatever is says there, as long as you changed the set reward section, you will get that. It just shows what you will get when you start the quest.

Just make sure you get everything precice, or it might mess up your game.

By usinga repeatable quests, you can keep changing hte reward by laoding game, handing in, getting reward, exit game, change the reward in teh quests file, then go back to game and hand in again. This way you can quickly get all the items you want

Also as a note, even if you give yourself 4 weapons, exactly the same, they wont have the same stats, the game chooses them randomly, one shotgun i got had 900 dmg and 16 accuracy, another had 1000 dmg and 15 accuracy. Its best to get a few of each, then pick the best of the lot

[Edited by rcboothman, 9/13/2011 1:54:16 PM]

Thanks a lot! I think you are right about quest reward in order to get items, cause I'm trying to put them on the shop but it doesn't work so well. I added the item that I wanted in the orange section, and deleted all the other color items, hoping to spawn only orange but this doesn't work >.< Now I have just a empty seller and sometime 1 orange eheh

I found a way to alter the items you get when choosing a chapter. This could be used to cheat in a massive way obviously, or you could use it to regain what you should have at that point. You can choose what level you are, what weapons, mods, ingrediants and collectables you have. You can even give yourself the items from the upcoming DLC, like the shock pulse bomb (which blows up the heads of nearby zombies), but this maybe be too naughty and get you told off by higher ups.

Anyway, after opening and extracting Data0.pak, open the files Inventory.scr and Collectables.scr, these contain the item names of all the base items in the game. Copy and paste ones you want into a temporary file(this makes it easier incase you mess up). Open up default_player_setup.scr and locate the text sub Items_low, theres also medium, high and very high, dependign on the game chapter. Under there, you will find what items you will currently load with, paste the ones you want into that spot. Example:

You're doing it wrong.. the procedure to make the custom files work requires you to add the files to the my documents folder.. Editing anything in data0 will auto crash the game, that is why they must be added to DI's documents folder.